From the article provided in your link: Domestic dogs have been eating cooked food for over 300,000 years and thus cannot be compared with their wild ancestors. Cooked meat is in fact more easily digested by dogs.

Furthermore, raw diets carry the risk of parasites, toxoplasma, salmonella, and nutritional deficiencies. Dogs do not do well on a raw diet, says Rollin. (Quote)

I've been feeding my dogs raw food for the past 6 years. They've thrived on the diet.

There are 2 things that you should do if feeding your dog raw meat or raw bones is freeze the meat/bones between getting it at the store and feeding it to your dog. The freezing kills any parasites that might be in the meat.

The other thing is to add a supplement, such as Missing Link. But I would do that even if I was feeding cooked food.

Raw food is much easier for them to digest.

Again, the key is to freeze the meat after you get it from the store to kill any parasites that might be in the meat.

As far as bacteria goes, their systems are better equipped to deal with bacteria than our systems. They have a much, much shorter digestive system than ours. That means that means that have a harder time digesting some types of food. Raw food contains enzymes that help them digest food. But it also means food (bacteria) spends less time in their systems and have less time to develop into a problem.

We used to give Gracie raw marrow bones from the grocery store that we'd frozen until we learned from a doggie periodontist that they can break their molars. It's a shame because she loves them and they kept her happy for hours.

i can attest to the old, bacteria laden meat being less of a problem than one might assume. Gracie has found and chowed down on all manner of carcasses in the woods and has been totally unaffected. Not that we'd feed them to her on purpose, but that stuff is out there, and we hike with her unleashed.

From the article provided in your link: Domestic dogs have been eating cooked food for over 300,000 years and thus cannot be compared with their wild ancestors. Cooked meat is in fact more easily digested by dogs.

Furthermore, raw diets carry the risk of parasites, toxoplasma, salmonella, and nutritional deficiencies. Dogs do not do well on a raw diet, says Rollin. (Quote)

It's weird that people have this notion that dogs have been eating only cooked meat for hundreds of thousands of years. It's logically flawed.

While people have certainly been giving dogs cooked meat, plenty of dogs have been fed raw meat, or have hunted for themselves, in that 300,000 years. It's only since the invention of dog kibble that the majority of dogs have switched to an all-cooked diet.

I wouldn't consider "nothing but rabbit" to be a balenced raw diet. There's a reason why raw diets are supposed to contain as wide a variety of meat as possible. Not to mention that if said cat was living wild and catching their own dinner rabbit would not be likely to be a huge percentage of their diet....

Both my dogs are raw fed. A healthy dog is much less inconvienced by the bacteria that would shut down a human, there's a reason your dog can scarf that roadkill and be non-the-worse for it.

Many dogs vomit up raw at first. Their stomachs often don't contain enough of the right enzyme to break it down properly. It varies quite a bit from dog to dog. But owners who are looking to feed raw are advised to allow the dog to eat that partially digested raw meat, its a gross, but effective, way to help the stomach build up the right stuff to break it down.

My boys chase the wild rabbits fairly frequently here, but I rarely see with neighbor hood cats with anyhting larger than various small rodents. Which isn't to say they'd not enjoy a bunny if they caught one, but its not a staple by any stretch.